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Online Help for the R libraries does not work #134

Closed LHMarshall closed 8 years ago

LHMarshall commented 9 years ago

Version: Distance 7 Alpha

In the Help menu in Distance there is an option for Online Manuals which gives links to help in the distance packages as well as the Distance user manual. These options referring to the R libraries link to the index html file for each of these R libraries but the links on these pages do not work as later versions of R no longer generate static html pages by default.

dill commented 9 years ago

One way around this is to spawn an R process in the background to serve the pages (basically as R does, see ?startDynamicHelp). BUT the problem there is when to stop that process (obviously when Distance is closed but maybe before?)

Another option is to simply link to the PDFs, though they are less nice to copy/paste from.

On 03/03/2015 13:46, Laura Marshall wrote:

Version: Distance 7 Alpha

In the Help menu in Distance there is an option for Online Manuals which gives links to help in the distance packages as well as the Distance user manual. These options referring to the R libraries link to the index html file for each of these R libraries but the links on these pages do not work as later versions of R no longer generate static html pages by default.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/DistanceDevelopment/distance-bugs/issues/134.

LHMarshall commented 9 years ago

Dave, I don't get notification of new bugs, can I get that switched on again please. Also can you let me know when you link the Distance 7 download stuff to the website so I can send out a notification to the mailing list please, Thanks, Laura

Dr. L. Marshall Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling University of St. Andrews 

 On Tuesday, 3 March 2015, 15:52, DL Miller <notifications@github.com> wrote:

One way around this is to spawn an R process in the background to serve the pages (basically as R does, see ?startDynamicHelp). BUT the problem there is when to stop that process (obviously when Distance is closed but maybe before?)

Another option is to simply link to the PDFs, though they are less nice to copy/paste from.

On 03/03/2015 13:46, Laura Marshall wrote:

Version: Distance 7 Alpha

In the Help menu in Distance there is an option for Online Manuals which gives links to help in the distance packages as well as the Distance user manual. These options referring to the R libraries link to the index html file for each of these R libraries but the links on these pages do not work as later versions of R no longer generate static html pages by default.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/DistanceDevelopment/distance-bugs/issues/134.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.

LHMarshall commented 8 years ago

These have now been removed from the Distance interface. Users should consult the library pdf which can be found online on the CAN site or the help within R.